Ainu

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Stenochiinae
Tribus: Stenochiini
Genus: Ainu
Subgenera: A. (Ainu) – A. (Erulipus) –

Species: A. andoi – A. angustus – A. fukudai – A. grandis – A. masumotoi – A. medoganus – A. sichuanus – A. tenuicornis

Name

Ainu Lewis, 1894: 479

Type species: Ainu tenuicornis George Lewis, 1894 by monotypy.

gender: masculine

Primary references

• Lewis, G. 1894. On the Tenebrionidae of Japan (Continued from p. 400.) Annals and magazine of natural history (6) 13(78): 465–485. DOI: 10.1080/00222939408677738 BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ren, G.D. & Yuan, C.X. 2005. Taxonomic study of the arboreal darkling beetles of the genus Ainu Lewis, 1894 from China (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). Acta zootaxonomica sinica 30(1): 98–103. Abtract and full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Ren, G.D. & Yuan, C.X. 2015. Taxonomy of the genus Ainu Lewis,1894(Coleoptera:Tenebrionidae) from China,with description of a new species. Entomotaxonomia 2015(2): 129–133. Reference page. 
• Ruzzier, E. 2014. New Species of Ainu Lewis, 1894 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Southeastasia. The Coleopterists Bulletin 68(4): 659-662. full article (PDF).Reference page. 
• Yuan, C.X., Nabozhenko, M.V. & Ren, G.D. 2018: Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Ainu Lewis, 1894 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Stenochiinae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 21(4): 1292-1298. Reference page.